AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), the world’s leading provider of fingerprint sensors and solutions, established a global record today with the shipment of its 25 millionth sensor. AuthenTec has shipped over 15 million sensors in the past 16 months, compared to the prior 10 million sensors shipped since the Company’s founding in 1998. AuthenTec’s fingerprint sensors, based on the Company’s patented TruePrint® technology, bring Power of Touch® features including security, convenience, personalization and navigation to over 17 million PCs and more than 7 million cell phones worldwide.
To celebrate this milestone, AuthenTec is sponsoring an international Big Ideas contest for the 25 best application ideas that take advantage of AuthenTec’s award-winning fingerprint sensors. Millions of people each day draw upon the Power of Touch to eliminate passwords, protect their phones and laptops from theft, shop online, or open their front door. The uses and applications in which fingerprint sensors can make life better are almost endless. The 25 winning ideas will be selected by a panel of technology enthusiasts, and winners will be awarded prizes which include the first place prize of an AuthenTec-enabled laptop PC and a $25 gift card for the 24 runners up. Big Ideas may be submitted until November 30, 2007 at the contest Web site, www.25Mandcounting.com.
Having the day from hell? Or just heard you’ve been awarded that longed for bonus? Well quick, snap that facial expression today because you could win $10,000 (almost £5,000) cash.
Symantec’s Norton 360 product is sponsoring a global photo competition online to document the feelings and expressions of Internet users all over the world. Running from today until the 30th September, the competition is a great opportunity to win a selection of great prizes simply by uploading a picture of your face doing your best emoticon impression!
All you have to do to enter is take a snap of your best impression of an emoticon, good and bad, and upload it here: www.nortonemoticonphotocontest.com. The picture can be of yourself or someone you know, and then once uploaded the pictures are entered into the prize draw to win:
Grand Prize:
US $10,000 Cash (approx £5,000)
5 First Place Prizes of US $1,000 Cash (by category)
Symantec would like to remind consumers of the importance of backing up their files. Norton 360 is the latest all-in-one security solution which delivers proven, automatic protection for everything the computer users in your family care about, providing automatic and transparent protection for viruses, spyware, fraudulent Web sites, phishing scams, and the latest online threats. Norton 360 is available for £59.99 from the Symantec store: www.symantecstore.com
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Wicked Lasers is giving free Pink Floyd concert tickets in Paris, France. Check it out….
Dear Wicked Lasers Customers,
The countdown has begun and only three days are left until the final revealing…
Who will join Wicked Lasers on The Dark Side of the Moon?
A gift basket with Pink Floyd concert tickets are waiting for YOU in your luxury suite in Paris, France.
The Pink Floyd Drawing will begin on April 20, 2007, 11:59PM PST. All unclaimed entry codes and prizes will be void on April 25, 2007, 11:59PM PST. For complete rules and regulations on the Pink Floyd Drawing, please visit: http://www.wickedlasers.com/index.php?p=pinkfloyd
-Wicked Lasers
From Nov 2006 – Jan 2007, we invite you to share your pleasure moments with us. Simply capture the moment of indulgence, depicting your intimate liaison with Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
Next, submit your most interesting and engaging ‘Pleasure Moments’ image with a caption of not more than 10 words and you could stand a chance to win one of these exciting prizes below!
1. Duration of the contest will be for 11 weeks from 6th Nov 2006 to 11.59pm, 21st January 2007.
2. Participants are required to submit one digital photo in JPG format with maximum file size of 1 MB, either in portrait or landscape, and in colour; and must be in adherence to one of the following requirements:
1. Photos must be taken within any Häagen-Dazs shop in Malaysia, OR
2. Photos must be taken with any Häagen-Dazs product i.e. Minicup, Pint, Single Bar, Crispy Sandwich and Multipack.
3. Participants are also required to describe the picture in less than 10 words. The judgement will be based on the most interesting pictures and descriptions that portray the theme of ‘Pleasure Moments’.
Cuti Cuti PLUS Contest. Each week 7 lucky winners will receive a 3D/2N Holiday Package at selected Hotels & Resorts in Langkawi, Penang, Putrajaya, Pangkor, Cameron Highland, Port Dickson or Melaka! Spend a minimum of RM 17 within one week in Cash or Touch ‘N Go at PLUS, ELITE or LINKEDUA Highways.

Google has at last refined its Google Reader product with new jam pack features. When you first open the new Google Reader, you will find that the interface has followed much to the design of Gmail.
The List view allows quick scrolling for users to see their feeds. This folder-based navigation makes it easier to organize subscriptions. It will also automatically mark items as ‘read’ when scrolling. Other new functions are ‘unread counts’ and ‘mark all as read’ just like emails. The new expanded view let’s you quickly scan over several items at once.
Now you can also share much easier by a single click of the “shared” icon, where you can publish an interesting item on your public sharing page for your friends to see ( can be shared via email too).
A video of Google Reader promotion is available which is made by Chris.

Get your own Dinoz and show the world who’s the strongest!
Dinoparc from Motion-Twin is a quality online fun game where players bring their creatures to fight in a vast world they can explore. Motion-Twin is one of the best-known creators of online games in France. Winner of the 2006 Flash Festival award in Games Category (Paris, May 2006) Motion-Twin has been working in Internet games for 5 years now. Expertise in a fun gaming universe of games, several of Motion-Twin’s websites are translated into different languages.
There’s a WorldAtlas Geography Quiz going on and anyone can win the USD 100 prize. See here